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...incumbent, Sir William Llewellyn, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Commander of the Legion of Honor, recipient of the Grand Cross of the Crown of Italy. A painter of Queens, he has produced dozens of slick portraits of Queen Mary for clubs, asylums, other institutions. That ardent water colorist Wilhelmina of The Netherlands is so enamored of his brush that she has made him a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau. Serious critics prefer to think of Sir William's hobby, which has made him an authority on 18th Century British painting, the sale prices...
...John Marin looks like a disheveled version of the late Sir Henry Irving. Because a new book on Artist Marin has just been published,* because critics like Henry McBride, Lewis Mumford and Julius Meier-Graefe have put themselves on record as considering John Marin the greatest water-colorist in the U. S., it was an important exhibit...
...Joan Miro is a sincere and gifted artist. . . . Miro's way with color is first class, in fact he is about the most thrilling colorist in the world today. ... In the new compositions facts are almost dispensed with completely. There remains however a color so lovely that the pure in heart must yearn to employ...
Also a poet, as well as a water-colorist and singer of old war songs, is the Senior Baron Hachiroemon, 14th Baron Mitsui and Head of the House. Until last year he left as many details as possible to the gentle, astute old man who was called "the Prime Minister of the Mitsui Empire," Baron Dr. Takuma Dan. Patriots assassinated Dr. Dan (TIME, March 14. 1932), partly because he was supposed to have made too much money for the Mitsuis by selling Japan's yen short before it was taken off gold. Ever since Mitsui short-selling was exposed...
...known John Marin 22 years. . . . He is a realist, a colorist, an artist and a poet. He is important because he has taken water color painting which has always been a minor art, and made of it a major medium...